At the doors of lexical access: The importance of the first 250 milliseconds in reading

• Main Author: Jon Andoni Dunabeitia (auth)
• Other Authors: Nicola Molinaro (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; compound words; Eye Movements; word recognition; word-initial letter constraint; reading; contextual predictability; word frequency
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Correct word identification and processing is a prerequisite for accurate reading, and decades of psycholinguistic and neuroscientific research have shown that the magical moments of visual word recognition are short-lived and markedly fast. The time window in which a given letter string passes from...